2014 ARIA AWARDS : The Winners

Adelaide’s Sia was the big winner in tonight’s ARIA Awards, taking home four of the pointy gongs, including the coveted Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release and the night’s biggest award, Album Of The Year.Chet Faker, who was widely predicted to sweep the night, picked up two ARIAs; for Best Male Artist and Best Independent Release.From there, it was all very evenly split across the field, with 5 Seconds Of Summer and One Direction picking up gongs in their respectively publicly voted categories, Iggy Azalea picking up Best Breakthrough Artist and Peking Duk bagging the award for the Best Dance Release.But apart from Sia and in the public awards, mainstream pop was once again glaringly overlooked; Tina Arena missing out on Best Adult Contemporary Album (it went to Neil Finn and Paul Kelly), Jess Mauboy and Guy Sebastian missing out in their respective categories.Molly Meldrum was deservedly inducted into the Hall Of Fame by long-time friends Marcia Hines and John Paul Young and gave a moving speech about his time in the industry and the need to support local music.Held at Sydney’s Star Events Centre and hosted by Osher Günsberg, the ARIAs tonight celebrated their 28th edition.Winners (below) are in italics.

(above) 5 Seconds Of Summer opening the show with a performance of ‘She Looks So Perfect’.